There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.
There's no place like home.

24 January 2007

January 24

I have a friend who is a sister to me. There's a pretty good difference in our ages, and we're quite dissimilar on some surface levels, but on other deeper ones we are wonderfully in synch. There's nobody truer, and tonight, there was nobody bluer either. I mean, she came over to my house with the weepy no-good-very-bad blues. We talked a while and got things cried out, and then I gave her two books, her belated Christmas. The first was a lovely blank book from India that I'd been saving, and I told her it was for recording her busy dream-life. The second was an all-time favorite of mine, A Girl Named Zippy, a copy I'd picked up for her second-hand. She asked me to inscribe her dream journal, so I went into the kitchen to have a bit of quiet. I left her reading Zippy in the living room and pretty soon she was laughing herself just about sick. Luckily, I had my camera with me in the kitchen, so I could steal an action shot. They say a good gift makes the receiver cry? Then mine was a success, because tears of hilarity were squeezing themselves out of my pal. I told her Zippy was good for her abs.

2 comments:

I loved that book! I could so relate to it because it was the exact same years I was growing up. I even had one of those hideous crocheted purses with the margarine tub bottoms. Too funny. A great book!

My name's Geo

Hello! Pleased to meet you. So you know who you're dealing with here—I'm in the middle of my life, but not the middle of the road. I've been married to my best friend for 20+ years. He and I have just become first-time parents through adoption, and we are totally smitten by our little girl. I am quiet by nature, love people, think too much. I am creative with a good sense of humor, which I'm not above turning on myself (though I'm gentler with others). I'm a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—grateful and inquisitive. My faith is relevant to every aspect of my life. I love that God encourages and answers questions. My life is good. So is yours. We've got a lot in common.